Sell the expensive minisforum pc, buy 3 used laptops, use https://github.com/onedr0p/cluster-template
Done! Full GitOps bare metal Talos kubernetes cluster that runs your workloads so much faster than any VM. Without hypervisor or Ansible or systemd or ssh. Just YAML manifests all the way down. Cert-manager for automatic certificate management. SOPS for local secrets management.
A few months later, you can have this:
Volsync for automated encrypted backups that automatically populate your volumes when you completely reset the entire cluster.
Rook-ceph for shared replicated storage among the nodes.
Authelia/lldap stack + Anubis botblocker to protect public-facing endpoints.
I guess I should start a blog.
This seems super cool. I’ll have to look into this more later and see how I could use this with my infrastructure
I ran into the same issue when setting up encrypted Proxmox. They have a very good guide for that in their wiki, but for some reason I rebooted before setting up the bridge and couldn’t get it back up until figuring it out.
https://pve.proxmox.com/wiki/Install_Proxmox_VE_on_Debian_12_Bookworm
